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Not caring that they might get stepped on and cracked or trampled by some wild animal.
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She's negligent with her young, as if they weren't even hers. She cares nothing about anything.
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She wasn't created very smart, that's for sure, wasn't given her share of good sense.
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But when she runs, oh, how she runs, laughing, leaving horse and rider in the dust.
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"Are you the one who gave the horse his prowess and adorned him with a shimmering mane?
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Did you create him to prance proudly and strike terror with his royal snorts?
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He paws the ground fiercely, eager and spirited, then charges into the fray.
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He laughs at danger, fearless, doesn't shy away from the sword.
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The banging and clanging of quiver and lance don't faze him.
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He quivers with excitement, and at the trumpet blast races off at a gallop.
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At the sound of the trumpet he neighs mightily, smelling the excitement of battle from a long way off, catching the rolling thunder of the war cries.